<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The monarch has become a symbol for cross border co-operation in North America. Let's hope it doesn't become the symbol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monarch has become a symbol for cross border co-operation in North America. Let's hope it doesn't become the symbol of our common failure to protect the environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13993]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38422]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he was over-valued because of the leagues he's played in. Now he's gone to one of the most unstable clubs in the A-League.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread;  Thou hast proud fanes above   Thy mighty dread. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread;  Thou hast proud fanes above   Thy mighty dread.    Yet wears thy Tiber's shore     A mournful mien:--      Rome, Rome, thou art no more       As thou hast been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47523]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4071]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness…]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His honesty and sanity were questioned. On his deathbed, he was a bitter person. Unfortunately, he didn't live quite long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38721]]></link><description><![CDATA[His honesty and sanity were questioned. On his deathbed, he was a bitter person. Unfortunately, he didn't live quite long enough to see this rediscovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words writ in waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words writ in waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25352]]></link><description><![CDATA[What passing bells for these who die as cattle?Only the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons. - Anthem for Doomed Youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us never negotiate out of fear. But, let us never fear to negotiate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us never negotiate out of fear. But, let us never fear to negotiate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64498]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got a team. The thing that they had to get down from the start is to accept their roles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37386]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got a team. The thing that they had to get down from the start is to accept their roles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is great enough that is his own master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53309]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is great enough that is his own master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,  Discovered in his fraud, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,  Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm from the city. I could care less what the zoning is out in the country, frankly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm from the city. I could care less what the zoning is out in the country, frankly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest result of education is tolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest result of education is tolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25297]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repetitionis the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repetitionis the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56992]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,  And doubt is brother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12755]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,  And doubt is brother devil to Despair!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotion is not a passing emotion: it is a fixed, enduring habit of mind permeating the whole life and shaping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devotion is not a passing emotion: it is a fixed, enduring habit of mind permeating the whole life and shaping every action. It rests upon a conviction that God is the Sole Source of Holiness, and that our part is to lean upon Him and be absolutely guided and governed by Him; and it necessitates an abiding hold on Him, a perpetual habit of listening for His Voice within the heart, as of readiness to obey the dictates of that Voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53446]]></link><description><![CDATA[For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you really know the commissioners wishes unless we vote on something? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you really know the commissioners wishes unless we vote on something?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nail in the wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nail in the wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36254]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64938]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were the fastest cars produced in 1987. Faster even than the Corvette. That's what made them famous. Everybody who's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34891]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were the fastest cars produced in 1987. Faster even than the Corvette. That's what made them famous. Everybody who's ever driven one of those cars is impressed with its speed and handling. To this day, there are all kinds of shootouts between the Grand Nationals and Mustangs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a cement trampoline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a cement trampoline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24241]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this is but a web of the wit; it can work nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence, indeed, is the one form of worship which is almost universally thought intolerable by Dissenting clergy. Despite their not-too-distant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence, indeed, is the one form of worship which is almost universally thought intolerable by Dissenting clergy. Despite their not-too-distant affinity to the Quakers, they think they will be heard for their much speaking. And since their organists too are equally reluctant to let any liturgical action pass without a ruminative obbligato on the Swell manual, congregations are subjected to unrelieved noise during a service which may well have begun with the reading of the sentence, "Be still, and know that I am God.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50476]]></link><description><![CDATA[One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim for the highest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim for the highest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ne'er shall look upon his like again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51247]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ne'er shall look upon his like again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This merger will mean a real choice and lower prices in local phone service, faster Internet access and better cable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This merger will mean a real choice and lower prices in local phone service, faster Internet access and better cable TV,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids tend to be younger and don't have as much driving experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids tend to be younger and don't have as much driving experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16738]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65462</guid></item></channel></rss>